BERKELEY -- Power has been restored to nearly 6,000 PG&E customers in North Berkeley after a Tuesday morning outage, the utility reported.

The outage, reported at about 9 a.m., knocked out power along Martin Luther King Jr. Way between Berryman Street and University Avenue, and in an area east of MLK to Campus Drive, said spokeswoman Tamar Sarkissian.

At its peak, 5,842 customers were without power, Sarkissian said. As of noon, 194 customers were without power, she said.

The cause of the outage is under investigation. All power was restored as of 1:05 p.m.